FESCO ticket#270 - preupgrade and F-12
Toshio Kuratomi
a.badger at gmail.com
Fri Nov 13 01:14:20 UTC 2009
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 02:56:42PM -0500, James Laska wrote:
> Greetings folks,
>
> After careful review by Will Woods around recently discovered problems
> related to preupgrading to Fedora 12, I've filed ticket#270
> (https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/270) for discussion at the next
> FESCO meeting. Please take a moment to read the details in the ticket.
>
> The high-level summary from Will ...
>
> preupgrade to F12 is basically not going to work for anyone
> without significant manual workarounds, due to insufficient disk
> space on /boot. I think we may need to talk to hughsie and/or
> the desktop team about removing the preupgrade integration in
> PackageKit for F10/F11 and how to do preupgrade right for F13
> and higher.
>
> Most of the folks impacted by this proposal are already informed.
> However, as per the FESCO meeting guidelines [1], I'm sending this to
> fedora-devel-list for wider discussion.
>
From the ticket and my experiences (I preupgraded a machine with a 100MB /boot
last night with no problems) this seems like an exageration. Could you
please explain "not going to work for anyone without significant manual
workarounds"?
-Toshio
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